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There's a late addition to the crowded roster of Coachella acts who have added shows in between next month's two weekend festivals: Gotye, the Belgian-born but Australian-raised breakout star behind the smash single "Someone That I Used to Know," will play April 19 at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live.

The significant size of that venue (capacity: 7,100) not only speaks to the mounting popularity for the man born Wally De Backer -- whose album Making Mirrors is one of the best so far from this still-young year -- but also suggests that the artist hardly anyone knew about in January should score either a plum main-stage slot at Coachella or the coveted sunset spot at the Outdoor Theatre.

Bonus: fellow Melbourne singer-songwriter Missy Higgins will open. Tickets, $29.50-$49.50, go on sale Friday, March 30, at 10 a.m. (Gotye will be doing quite a bit of U.S. criss-crossing, too: He plays Saturday Night Live on April 14, then makes his first Indio appearance the next day.)

Catching up on a few others this week: Yacht will play the Glass House on June 15, $12 in advance, $14 day of show, on sale Friday at 10 a.m. ... while Revelation Records will celebrate its 25th anniversary on June 7 with Into Another, Ignite, Gameface and more, $25, on sale Saturday at 10 a.m.

Also at the Pomona venue: the Slow Forward's record release show for When We Are All, May 19, $10; and Norwegian black metal band 1349, June 18, $17.

I hate when this happens: a big, seemingly one-of-a-kind show gets announced for L.A. one week -- and the next an O.C. date is added.

So here we go again: Given pre-sale demand for his June 15 appearance at the Hollywood Bowl, Sting, who just last week revealed plans to reinterpret his songbook and tour with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra (conducted by Steven Mercurio), has announced two more SoCal stops to frame that ballyhooed performance.

The Police chief and his sprawling support also play June 13 at Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre in Chula Vista and June 16 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine. Pre-sales for American Express card-holders and fan-club members run Wednesday through March 12. Both shows go on sale to the general public on March 15. Prices: $32.35-$157.35 for Cricket, $30.50-$201 for Verizon.

Also new to his itinerary: a June 18 gig at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, $51-$201, also on sale March 15. Tickets for Sting's Bowl show, meanwhile, are on sale to all starting Monday at 10 a.m., $56-$257.50.

Lady Antebellum, the popular country trio who just last week were named Tim McGraw's next tour opener (June 4 at Cricket, June 5 at San Manuel Amphitheatre in Devore), will first play their own headlining show April 15 at the Wiltern, no doubt spotlighting tracks from its just-released second album, Need You Now. Tickets, $39.50, are on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. via LiveNation.com.